La Utilización de criptomonedas como objeto ilícito de lavado de activos en el contexto de ataques Ransomware: una “nueva” problemática

• Autor: Arana Floriano, Edson Arturo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2025
• Institución: Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco
• Repositorio: Revistas - Universidad Nacional San Antonio Abad del Cusco
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/1832
• Enlace del recurso: https://revistas.unsaac.edu.pe/index.php/ry/article/view/1832
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Criptoactivos; blanqueo de capitales; secuestro informático; tipicidad; interpretación; fraude informático

In this research article, the author attempts to problematize the debate on cryptocurrencies and their nature as “goods, effects or gains” in the situation of Peruvian regulations on the crime of money laundering, resolving under the principle of legality, concluding that it is possible to subsume them in this normative element. In a secondary analysis, it examines how the use of Ransomware attacks by cybercriminals behaves in order to demand payments using cryptocurrencies in order not to make the data of the digital user inaccessible and whether this assumption subsumes in the crime of computer fraud as a prior crime of money laundering, arriving at the answer that there are problems of accuracy and adequacy due to disconnection with the dimension of seriousness and injustice emanating from the conduct of “cyber kidnapping”. The author’s proposals are divided into aspects de lege lata and lege ferenda, for the problems noted.